So it’s understandable that the Governor of Texas is telling employers in California that his state has a better climate for job creation.

John Fund of National Review opines on this bit of competition between states.

Texas governor Rick Perry knows how to start a rumble. Last week, he spent a mere $24,000 on radio ads in California, urging firms there to move to Texas, with its “zero state income tax, low overall tax burden, sensible regulations, and fair legal system.” …He begins a four-day barnstorming tour of California today, touting Texas’s virtues to business owners. …several observers acknowledged that Perry has gotten the better of the battle.

Indeed, in the last five years Texas has gained 400,000 new jobs while California has lost 640,000. The Lone Star State’s rate of job growth was 33 percent higher than California’s last year, even as the Golden State finally pulled out of the recession. …Texas’s legislature has just trimmed its $188 billion two-year budget by 8 percent, and the state may have more revenue than it can legally spend because it is barred from raising outlays more than the rate of economic growth.

Here’s a very good Steve Breen cartoon about Perry’s fishing trip to the west coast.

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John Kasich here in Ohio has also greatly improved this state as far as lowering the sales tax and he is talking now about getting rid of the state income tax. For the first time in a long time, Ohio is in the black as far as surplus. We have more jobs and though it is sometimes in baby steps, Ohio continues to grow under his leadership. I believe no one can disprove that Republican governors have improved their states considerably.

I live in Texas and I agree with you on all these points. In the last 10 years I don’t personally know anyone who lost a job except me. I know many who switched jobs because they chose to do so, and had little trouble doing. 3 years ago I got laid off and had to beat off job offers with a stick, because I decided to retire instead :)

I live in California most of my life, being raised on the Rez in Montana elders told me to look, listen and learn and you will see how people’s actions are changing the community. California started the lottery to help out education back in 1985. Kids are our future, education should not be a problem. But California is not the land of the free and the home of the brave, but instead, the land of the greed and the home of the slaves. I’ve been researching for months to move and Texas is one of few states I have been looking at. All I want to be is to live with my family and love america without politicians sucking the american dream out of America